latent
Example Sentences
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"In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made."
From Barron's
The analysts view it “as a relatively low-cost/risk strategy to take advantage of spot gold prices and latent mill capacity,” they say.
According to Amazon, this triggered a "latent race condition" - or in other words unearthed a dormant bug that could occur in an unlikely sequence of events.
From BBC
And then we did “Manhunter,” and we were going to the FBI lab and using the stuff to lift latent prints — all the laboratory stuff.
From Los Angeles Times
For Europe, the latent threat to Nato countries comes primarily from Russia's missiles, some of which are stationed on the Baltic coast in Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
